opinion A world on edge

"And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that you be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in diverse places."

Night and day our fighter planes roar through the skies over the Holy Land. In the nearby tottering and invaded nations of Europe the streets are aflame with the furious discontent of protesting mobs, always waving the forever angry banner of Palestine. Russia continues sending its young men to the slaughter in its cruel years of war with Ukraine, Muslim nations continue to war one against another, as African Christians are daily slaughtered by Muslim gangs, and the 'United Nations' of dictatorial tyrants and oligarchs draws up yet more condemnations of Israel, their favorite designated Villain, now defending itself in wars on multiple fronts with its genocidal Islamic neighbors. Iran continues on its mad Jihadi course to bring its expected Mahdi to ignite a worldwide conflagration that will leave only devout Muslims on the face of the Earth, the rest martyrs enjoying their crowded heavenly brothel of virgins.

Meanwhile, many Americans see this all as just far away and annoying, disturbing their luxury of unrestrained freedoms to be interrupted by higher gas prices, while struggling to form an effectual government for a deeply divided nation. Yet some of those there in the position of leadership have connected the dots, recognizing the imminent danger and threat, and so prepare for a necessary but dangerous reckoning with the evil empire in our time.

Famines and floods, earthquakes and pestilences, wars and rumors of wars.